Trash & treasure: Hong Kong cops scour landfill for $3.7m painting
You would think one would be a LITTLE more careful with a painting worth almost $4 million. Cops are searching a landfill in China after cleaners of Hong Kong’s Grand Hyatt Hotel mistakenly threw out the box near a … More…
This Chinese Auction House Wants to Buy $1 Billion of Detroit’s Art
Poly International Auction, located in mainland China, the worlds third-largest auction house, after Christie’s and Sotheby’s, is willing to spend $1 billion in order to acquire the Chinese works owned by the bankrupt Detroit Institute of Art. This Chinese … More…
Detroit’s Orr Shoots Down Creditors’ $2 Billion Art Offer
Detroit’s Orr Shoots Down Creditors’ $2 Billion Art Offer the frenzy to get a piece of Detroit’s art collection is amazing. I do hope they find another way to get out of debt … it would be a real bad precedent … More…
Painting of the Day (just hit the SOLD archives again): Victor Marais-Milton’s “The New Chef”
The New Chef. here is the largest and most impressive paintings we have seen by the late 19th / early 20th century French artist Victor Marais-Milton (1872-1944). The gallery originally sold this work in 2004 and just had the pleasure … More…
Painting of the Day (AVAILABLE): Allan Banks’ “Visitation of the Innocents”
Visitation of the Innocents. here is an amazing work by the American contemporary artist Allan Banks (b.1948) that we just added to the available online inventory. This painting will be featured in our booth at the Chicago International Art, Antique … More…
‘Chicken Cup’ Sets China Auction Record With $36 Million
‘Chicken Cup’ Sets China Auction Record With $36 Million – the Chinese market is still on fire and the records keep on coming. The Chicken Cup is from the Chengua-era (1465-1487) and measures just 3.1 inches in diameter. Records were also … More…